SITE INDEX:
COMMUNITY BUILDING: LEARNING OUR WAYS Organization of the Site Five major sections illustrate the learning involved in community building. The first two sections, Community and Building, link to ideas about community building and sites where community building is broadly supported and practiced. The last three sections, Learning, Our, Ways, focus on selected ideas and methods for practicing community building. The Learning and Our portions of the web site are currently under construction. Links will become active as they ready for use.
I. COMMUNITY BUILDING: LEARNING OUR WAYS - AN INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY Wholistic Systems Thinking
M.Scott Peck's piece Joy of Community
Robert Putnam of Harvard: The Prosperous Community
II. COMMUNITY BUILDING: LEARNING OUR WAYS - AN INTRODUCTION TO THE MOVEMENT A. Community Building Movement: An Explanation Civic Practives Network - Community
Civic Practices Network - New Citizenship
Prevention Report, Spring 1998 theme issue on Community, The National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice.
The Community Stewardship Exchange's selection of articles on collaboration and community ownership. B. Community Building Movement - Movement Catalysts Alliance for National Renewal
Civic Practices Network
Sustainable Communities Network
Asset-Based Community Development Institute
Healthy Community Programs
COMM - ORG: resources on community organizing
Center for Democracy and Citizenship
Community Stewardship Exchange
Livable Communities Initiative To explore further on community building catalysts, here are several useful sites. National Civic League
Healthy Cities Movement
National Community Building Net
United Way - Community Building
Building Healthier Communities
Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
Rebuilding Communities - A.E. Casey Foundation
Community Development Society
Center for Living Democracy
Institute for the Study of Civic Values
Community Organizing and Activist Connections C. Community Building Movement - Cases in Sectors Civic Practices Network topics
The Alliance for National Renewal - Community Stories Index.
Healthy Communities in Action. McAuley Institute and Mercy Housing Inc. which are affiliated with the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas.
Community Stewardship Exchange - Garden of Cases D. Community Building Movement - Family, Youth and Community The Search Institute
Building Communities of Support for Families in Poverty
Iowa CYFAR Project - Building Communities with Strong Families
State Strengthening site: Family and Community
Families, Children and Education - It Takes a Village initiative of the Institute for the Study of Civic Values
Neighbor Transformation/Family Development III. COMMUNITY BUILDING: LEARNING OUR WAYS - AN INTRODUCTION TO LEARNING, A PROCESS AT THE HEART OF COMMUNITY BUILDING. This portion is under construction and is not active at this time. IV. COMMUNITY BUILDING: LEARNING OUR WAYS - AN INTRODUCTION TO SHARED LEADERSHIP. This portion is under construction and is not active at this time. V. COMMUNITY BUILDING: LEARNING OUR WAYS - AN INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY BUILDING STRATEGIES AND METHODS A. Learning Our WAYS: Community Building Strategies 1. General Community Building: Building Healthy Community
The Citizen's Handbook
Community Building Advice
Community Tool Box 2. Asset Based Community Development The Asset-Based Community Development Institute
Community Building Resources Aim High
3. Community Dialogue Study Circles Resource Center
Planning Community-wide Study Circle Programs:
National Issues Forum
Public Agenda
Building Deliberative Communities B. Community Organizing Basics of Organizing
Dynamics of Organizing 1. Coalitions,Partnerships, and Collaboration National Network for Collaboration
Building Coalitions - How to Bulletins : Ohio State
Evaluating Collaboratives: Reaching the Potential
Collaborative Negotiation: A Creative Process for Resolving Turf Issues
Ideas and Methods for Renewing and Maintaining Momentum Collaboration
C. Learning Our WAYS - Process Facilitation The People, Partnerships and Communities Information Sheets Series
Self-Help Resources for Community Groups
Handbook on Workshop and Group Facilitation
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